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War Crimes and War Criminals: Who Will Be Held Accountable?

July 28, 2020 Opinion

There is something unique about how the United States manipulates the “terrorism” label to avoid being accused of carrying out war crimes. When an indigenous militia or an armed insurgency like the Ta…

“I Could Live With That”: How the CIA Made Afghanistan Safe for the Opium Trade

July 14, 2020 Opinion

“I decided I could live with that.”– Stansfield Turner, Jimmy Carter’s CIA director, on the extreme level of civilian casualties in the CIA’s covert war in Afghanistan. The first indelible image of th…

BOUNTYGATE: Scapegoating Systemic Military Failure in Afghanistan

July 7, 2020 Opinion

On the morning of Feb. 27, Beth Sanner, the deputy director of national intelligence for mission integration, arrived at the White House carrying a copy of the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), a docume…

CIA Project MK-ULTRA

July 4, 2020 History

CIA Project MK-ULTRA The United States government funded and performed countless psychological experiments on unwitting humans, especially during the Cold War era, perhaps partially to help develop mo…

MI6 Might Become the CIA’s Proxy for Stopping Europe from Moving Towards Russia

June 9, 2020 Opinion

MI6's shadowy role in four separate Russia-related fake news scandals in recent years strongly suggests that it's being groomed to be the CIA's proxy for stopping Europe from moving towards Russia onc…

The Forgotten Coup Against ‘The Most Loyal Ally’

June 6, 2020 Books

The Australian High Court has ruled that correspondence between the Queen and the Governor-General of Australia, her viceroy in the former British colony, is no longer “personal” and the property of B…

Trump Against the Government: Officials Conflicted Over Lying for the President

May 11, 2020 Opinion

Once upon a time in the United States there was a consensus among national politicians that there were two areas where there should be a unified approach to policy. They were national security and for…

Human Lab Rats: The US Government’s Secret History of Grisly Medical Experiments

April 26, 2020 Opinion

I have never known any government to put the best interests of its people first, and this COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Now this isn’t intended to be a debate over whether COVID-19 is a legitimat…